David Burnett: Too Close Exhibit

October 6, 2011 - January 29, 2012

10am - 5pm ~ Tues, Thurs, Friday
10am - 8pm ~ Wed.
11am - 5pm ~ Sat. & Sun
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (directions)


For over four decades, photojournalist David Burnett has covered wars, political events, celebrities, and everyday people. Burnett's iconic photographs have won numerous awards and he was recently named one of the "100 Most Important People in Photography" by American Photo magazine. David Burnett: Too Close will present a broad selection of works by this renowned photographer.


$7 adults
$5 seniors/youth
 $0 children under 6

Color Exhibit

September 15, 2011- January 8, 2012
 10am - 5pm ~ Tues, Thurs, Friday
10am - 8pm ~ Wed.
11am - 5pm ~ Sat. & Sun
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (directions)

Containing a diverse range of artworks from around the world, Color explores the relationship of color to artists, audiences, and itself. This exhibition utilizes over twenty pieces from the UMFA's permanent collection, using color as a connector across cultures and time. This exhibition includes works by artists Robert Motherwell, Alex Katz, Anna Campbell Bliss, and more. While visiting the exhibition, be sure to use the hands on, in-gallery color collage wall to create your own color compositions. This exhibition is funded as part of the UMFA's Art in a Box program and is presented in conjunction with the debut of the new statewide box, Art in a Box: Color.


$7 adults
$5 seniors/youth
 $0 children under 6

LeConte Stewart: Depression Era Art

Opens July 21, 2011
 10am - 5pm ~ Tues, Thurs, Friday
10am - 8pm ~ Wed.
11am - 5pm ~ Sat. & Sun
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (directions)

In an exciting collaboration, the UMFA has teamed up with the L.D.S. Church History Museum to stage the largest exhibition ever mounted of Utah artist LeConte Stewart's work.

The UMFA's retrospective will examine defining works created during the Great Depression, a period when the artist examined thematic images of progress juxtaposed to the human consequences of economic upheaval.

The L.D.S. Church History Museum will exhibit a survey of Stewart's large body of landscape works on paper and paintings with an emphasis of rural Utah. Farmhouses, barns and fields are depicted in rich tones with thick impasto and loose brushstrokes. They are familiar scenes of the western environment. It is a backdrop in which Stewart found not only the isolation he sought throughout his life, but a spirit in the land that was of solace to him.


$7 adults
$5 seniors/youth
 $0 children under 6

Africa: Arts of a Continent

On view through September 4, 2011


10am - 5pm ~ Tues, Thurs, Friday
10am - 8pm ~ Wed.
11am - 5pm ~ Sat. & Sun

Closed Mondays and Holidays

Utah Museum of Fine Arts (directions)

This ambitious exhibition of African art objects drawn from the UMFA’s permanent collection centers on themes of the spirit world and afterlife. Africa: Arts of a Continent explores the spiritual and political power of Central African masks, the magic and mystery of ancestral African sculptures, and the enduring beauty of African objects used in everyday life. The installation debuts of one of the UMFA’s newest acquisitions: a late XXVIth Dynasty Egyptian sarcophagus.

$7 adults
$5 seniors/youth
 $0 children under 6

Smithson Effect Film: "Spiral Jetty"

Wed, June 8
7pm – 8pm
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (directions)

It’s movie night at the UMFA! Enjoy a screening of Robert Smithson’s "Spiral Jetty" (1970) in the UMFA Auditorium.


$7 adults
$5 seniors/youth
 $0 children under 6

Don Olsen: Abstracts from Nature

10am - 5pm ~ Tues, Thurs, Friday
10am - 8pm ~ Wed.
11am - 5pm ~ Sat. & Sun
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (directions)

The exhibition Don Olsen: Abstracts from Nature, on view in the G.W. Anderson Family Great Hall, celebrates the 100th birthday of abstract artist Don Olsen (1910-1983). Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Olsen's work was misunderstood because it represented a style unfamiliar to Utah audiences.

Today, however, he is acknowledged as one of the most influential and gifted abstract artists to have worked in the region.  A student of Hans Hoffmann, Olsen created abstract expressionist works using volume, color, and shapes taken from nature.

Smithson Effect Exhibit

Now thru July 3rd
10am - 5pm ~ Tues, Thurs, Friday
10am - 8pm ~ Wed.
11am - 5pm ~ Sat. & Sun

Utah Museum of Fine Arts (directions)

With one of the most recognizable works of 20th century art in its backyard, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts presents an exhibit exploring the creative influence of Roberts Smithson on a generation of contemporary artists.

$7 adults
$5 seniors/youth
 $0 children under 6

Utah Museum of Fine Arts - FREE Days

First Wednesdays ~ 10am - 8pm
Third Saturdays ~ 11am - 5pm

Also FREE on the Third Saturday is the art studio program, open to the public from 1-4 pm

May 21- Backpacks
June 18- Jigsaw Puzzles
July 16- Ornate Frames
Aug. 20- Oil Pastel Landscapes
Sept. 17- Moon Festival

Available thanks to the Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks Fund.

                                       

AAMD Museum Day

Wednesday, May 18
10am – 8pm
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (map)

In honor of Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) Museum Day, the UMFA will be offering a special $1 off all admission prices during opening hours.

Helen Leavitt Photography

February 24 through June 12, 2011
11 am – 5 pm
Utah Museum of Fine Art
 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City

One of the great photographers of the twentieth century, Helen Levitt took the activity of city streets as her primary subject, paying special attention to the children for whom the street served as a playground. This presentation of photographs drawn from the UMFA's collection includes representative works from the late 1930s and early 1940s—when Levitt emerged as a key member of the New York School photographers—as well as later photographs from her long and accomplished career.